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The Commonwealth

Hospital Project Moves Forward

WEKU | By Amber Coulter, The News-Enterprise

Published October 6, 2011 at 5:23 PM EDT

There are plans to build a new veterans hospital in Louisville and a hospital at Fort Knox. While speaking Wednesday to the Joint Executive Council of Veterans Organizations of Kentucky, Bob Morey, facilities planner for the Robley Rex VA Medical Center in Louisville, responded to rumors and Louisville news reports suggesting the Louisville project would not move forward. The project is on course, Morey said, adding that a new Fort Knox hospital would be for military personnel only.

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